Record strip



Aug. 21, 1928. 1,681,168

A. M. BOVIER RECORD STRIP Original Filed Sept. 1924 3 INVENTOR ATTORNEYSPatented Aug. 21, 1928.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ARCHIE M. IBOVIER, OF ELMIRA, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO AMERICAN SALES BOOKCOMPANY, LIMITED, OF TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA, A CORPORATION OF CANADA.

RECORD STRIP.

Application filed September 9, 1924, Serial No. 736,687. Renewed October11, 1927.

This invention relates to folding devices.

An object of this invention is to provlde pads for mania device of thecharacter described having-- sales records arranged in sets but soarranged that the records of each set may be manipulated as a singlesheet in the manifolding device and whereby said records are maintainedin registry to the point of use at all times. I

A further object is to provide a pad having the ease of manipulation ofa single. continuous strip but having the capacity of making a pluralityof perfectly registered records at a single writing.

Other objects of the invention will in part be obvious and will in partappear hereinafter.

The invention accordingly comprises an article of manufacture possessingthe features, properties, and the relation of elements which will beexemplified in the article hereinafter described and the scope of theapplication of which will be indicated in the claims.

For a fuller understanding of the nature and objects of the invention,reference should be had to the following detailed description taken inconnection with the accompanying drawing, in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a. pad embodying this inventionshowing the record strips arranged in roll form,

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section through the strip of Fig. 1 showing themanner in which the auxiliary records are attached to the main recordstrip,

Fig. 3 illustrates the manner in which the record strip may be folded toform a zigzag book, and

Fig. 4 is a modification.

In accordance with this invention. there is provided a strip of paper 1having a plurality of successive forms printed thereon as shown at 2.These blank forms provide a long serice of inscription-receiving spacesor areas, in effect forming a series of record or from leaves attachedend to end. A second strip. as '3. pre tor-ably of tissue lies insuperposed rclation to the strip 1 throughout its entire. length and inturn may have suitable forms printed on it corresponding to the forms 2.For

many purposes the tissue strip will be beneath the paper strip as shown.Inasmuch as both strips are particularly adapted to travel forwardly ina manifolding machine or the like, they may be appropriately termedtraveler strips and the two strips arranged in ma-infolding relationwith each other, as more fully described below, may be termed acomposite traveler record strip.

The traveler recordstrips l and 2 are attached together by anyappropriate known means such for example as an adhesive as shown at 4:,this attachment being positioned between successive adjacent sets offorms or record leaves whereby the recording areas of the traveler strip3 are maintained in registry with the recording areas or forms upontraveler strip 1. ,These attachments 4 are thus arranged in a seriesalong the composite record strip preferably extending transversely ofsaid strip and being respectively positioned between the adjacent recordleaves as clearly shown in the drawing.

In cases where the composite strip is intended to be used in connectionwith a manifolding machine such as an autographic register having astrip feed controlling mechanism of the well known type employingfriction feed disks, said composite strip may be provided with feedcontrolling apertures 5 so as to cooperate with the feed disks foreffect ing longitudinal alignment of the record strip. These apertures 5are preferably arranged in two longitudinal series as shown, and theybear a definite relation to the printed forms whereby the strip will bechecked in a definite position with the b ank forms over the writingplaten of the machine for the reception of an entry.

In order to facilitate theseparation of the longitudina'lseries offor-ins one from another perforations such as indicated at 6, may bemade between adjacent successive sets of rec 0rd leaves thus still moredefinitely dividing the composite strip into a succession of record orform leaves. It will be observed that a series of sets of leavesarranged in superposed manifold relation is provided by the constructionand arrangement as disclosed. In order to strengthen the advance ends ofthe record leaves and to facilitate manipulation,

the area of attachment 4 between adjacent record leaves which extendstransversely of the strip may include the advance ends of the sheetcarrying the control apertures 5. In this manner not only is the advanceend of the sheets strengthened but the control apertures themselves aregreatly stiffened whereby it the strip be used with aligning pins, thedanger of mutilation of the edge of the control aperture by the aligningpins is greatly reduced.

Each transverse line of the perforations 6 is preferably situatedimmediately in advance of the surface adjacent of attachment between theupper and lower sheets whereby when any set of sheets is torn from thestrip the various sheets of the set are automatically severed from eachother at the rear end. \Vhen the strip is used in a manifoldingdevicethe advance set of forms is brought into proper position in the deviceby grasping the front edge thereof. During this operation the auxiliarysheets are retained in registry with the corresponding sheets of themain strip by reason of the attachment of the strips together.Furthermore, particularly where it is desired to feed the strip betweenfeed rollers, the stiffening furnished at the advance end by reason ofthe attachment of the sheets facilitates that operation. Moreover, whereeach strip is brought into position and registered by means of thecontrol apertures, damage to the edges of thecontrol apertures isprevented by the stiffenin.

'lhe record made upon the original sheet may be transferred to theauxiliary sheet by any suitable means, as for example, where theauxiliary sheet is made of tissue both sheets may be fed over a carbonsheet whereby the original writing is reproduced upon the underface ofthe tissue sheet and may be read through it because of its transparency.

As soon as the record is completed upon any set of forms and the form isadvanced to the next line of perforations, the completed set may be tornfrom the machine along the line of perforations and this automaticallysevers the original from the tissue at the rear end thus facilitatingthe ultimate severance at both ends.

It will be obvious that a pad may be formed having a plurality of stripsfolded together as one, either by associating with the strip heretoforedescribed another simple strip, or by associating together two or moreof the compound strips heretofore described. In Fig. 4 is illustrated apad in which a compound strip is associated with a simple strip and thetwo folded together into a single roll. By this construction a singlesheet of twofaced transfer paper may be inserted between the simplestrip *and the compound strip and thus make three copies of the salesrecords with a single writing.

Since certain changes may be made in the above article and differentembodiments of the invention could be made without departing from thescope thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the abovedescription or shown in the accompanying drawing shall be interpreted asillustrative and not in a limiting sense.

It is also to be understood that the following claims are intended tocover all of the generic and specific features of the invention hereindescribed, and all statements of the scope of the invention which, as amatter of language, might be said to fall therebetween.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is

1. A pad for manifolding record devices comprising, in combination, aplurality of traveler strips attached to each other transversely atregularly spaced intervals, there being a weakened line of severanceimmediately in advance of each of said attachments.

2. A pad for manifolding record devices comprising, in combination, atraveler strip having forms printed thereon, a second strip insuperposed relation with said traveler strip and attached thereto at aseries of points therealong positioned between the printed forms andfree therefrom at the printed forms.

3. A pad for manifolding record devices comprising, in combination, atraveler strip having forms printed thereon and having lines ofseverance between successive pairs of adjacent printed forms, a secondstrip in superposed relation to said first mentioned strip and attachedthereto between the said pairs of adjacent printed forms and in the rearof the respective adjacent lines of severance and otherwise freetherefrom.

4. A pad for manifolding record devices comprising, in combination, astrip having successive forms printed thereon and control apertures indefinite relation to and between the successive adjacent printed forms,a second strip in superposed relation with said first mentioned stripand attached thereto in transverse alignment with said apertures.

5. A pad for manifolding record devices comprising in combination, aplurality of strips in superposed relation and folded together into asingle pad, certain of said strips being attached to another of saidstrips transversely at regularly spaced intervals, certain of saidstrips having forms printed thereon and control apertures bearingdefinite relation respectively to said forms, said control aperturesbeing situated respectively within the areas of attachment between saidsheets.

6. A composite record strip including, in combination, a traveler recordstrip, and a second traveler record strip substantially coextensive inlength with and in manifolding relation with said first mentionedtraveler strip and attached thereto along transverse lines at a seriesof longitudinally spaced intervals.

7. A composite record strip including, in combination, a traveler recordstrip forming a series of attached record leaves and a second travelerrecord strip in manifolding relation with said first mentioned travelerstrip and having attachment thereto at a series of longitudinally spacedintervals intermediate the respective adjacent record leaves, saidtraveler strips being free from attachment to each other at the lateraledges thereof intermediate'said first mentioned attachments.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

ARCHIE M. BOVIER.

